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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Zonker T. Chuqui)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: What God Wants
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Date: Fri, 2-Nov-84 17:39:21 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  2 17:39:21 1984
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In article <603@bunker.UUCP> garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson) writes:
>> Face it. God doesn't want us all to be Christians, or Catholics, or Jews,
>> or Zen Buddists...
>
>Now if a Christian makes a statement about what God does or doesn't want,
>probably a dozen people would accuse the writer of being presumptious.
>"How do you know what God wants?  When did he reveal himself personally
>to you?  Do you often have private conversations with him?" or some such.

Ah... Hoisted by my own petard... I probably should have phrased it a
little less firmly. It is intuitively obvious to me that all of the
religions that I've studied over the years all seem to say the same thing
in ways that the society that the religion involved in can deal with
appropriately. One of the great joys of humanity is its diversity, and part
of that diversity is that widely differing groups of people can all worship
the same Being in ways uniquely theirs. 

chuq
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From the Department of Bistromatics:                   Chuq Von Rospach
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  I'd know those eyes from a million years away....